Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.4 User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap
Hi, This is the first of a series of patches to add support for the TILE-Gx architecture to Debian. My first target is dpkg, which needs to learn about the architecture name. There is already a CentOS based port available at http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/tile-scm/source.html. It uses the GNU triplet tilegx-linux-gnu. Thus the GNU CPU name should simply be tilegx. I believe that the Debian architecture name should also simply be tilegx. Some tooling seems to understand about other variants tilepro-linux-gnu and tilegxbe-linux-gnu, both of which refer to different ABIs. Thus the config.guess regular expression should not over-match. TILE-Gx is little endian 64 bit. Stinging this together in the dpkg cputable format, we arrive at: # <Debian name> <GNU name> <config.guess regex> <Bits> <Endianness> tilegx tilegx tilegx 64 little I put Chris Metcalf into Cc, to have him review the assertions made above. Rationale for adding TILE-Gx to Debian: I have a working patch stack to build a cross toolchain and to cross build 30 source packages. The architecture is so well upstreamed, that none of my patches (pending submission) touch any C code. The CentOS based port covers about 5000 source packages. Basic hardware is available below $ 1000. Helmut
